From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:51:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] t5800: document some non-functional parts of remote helpers
Message-ID: <20110607175110.GB22216@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimAngV2BxODJ6gCn4zGh7+p+MnhZQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:34:04PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 19:28, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Isn't that the case already with import? The helper writes into a
> > staging area (like refs/testgit), and then we let git pick the results
> > out of there.
> 
> The staging area solution is sub-optimal, see [0] for the thread I was
> referring to.
> 
> [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/174693/focus=174787

Thanks. I'm not sure of some details, though. In particular, we also use
the staging area during push to know which parts of the history we
_don't_ have to send. So where will the remote helper store that state
if not in this staging repo?

-Peff